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Benzene and the Pollution Exclusion
Many see benzene-related cases as the next big thing in toxic tort litigation.
Reducing Criminal Liability with Chinese Imports
The China import safety crisis creates a perfect storm for driving importers and retailers out of business when faced with monumental product liabilities, both criminal and civil. Corporate counsel, therefore, must learn how to minimize or even eliminate their clients' increased criminal and civil exposure.
What's New in the Law
Highlights of the latest equipment leasing cases.
The Disappearance of Qs: A Knockout Punch to Securitizations?
Proposed changes to accounting rules for securitization vehicles will further challenge this already fragile market, threatening its role as a significant source of liquidity.
Movers & Shakers
Who's doing what; who's going where.
Calculating the Damages
While some courts have allowed the use of race- and socio-economic-based statistical evidence when computing damages in tort actions, others have expressly rejected the use of such statistical evidence, questioning the appropriateness, reliability, and fairness of this evidence when used in this way.
Beware New 'E-Prescriptions'
Electronic prescriptions may be the cure for a doctor's bad handwriting, but they also carry an unhealthy dose of legal risks for the ill-prepared. That's what health-care-law attorneys are advising the medical profession as it embraces "e-prescribing" ' a rapidly growing practice whereby doctors are ditching pen and paper to order prescriptions through cyberspace.
Movers & Shakers
Who's going where; who's doing what.
Toxic Plastics?
Canada recently became the first country in the world to limit exposure to bisphenol A, or BPA, a chemical found in numerous plastic products. The same month, the FDA decided to conduct further studies on BPA. These events may mark a dramatic change in official categorization and treatment of the chemical after decades of scientific and public debate. It may also result in new litigation across the country.
Practice Tip: Expert Witness Selection
This article briefly outlines the historical development of the federal rules relating to expert witness discovery, discusses evolving judicial interpretations of the scope of expert witness discovery, provides a sampling of federal and state court rulings as to various types of expert witness discovery requests, and offers practical advice in respect to managing expert witness discovery.

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